Hey all. Ignore the green text, I'm here for some game development questions of my own.
I've been working on a game idea for quite a while, and think I have enough of the design finished to actually start coding. There's going to be some Flash, of course, but also a web service layer that Flash will need to interact with to send/retrieve data. I'm curious if anyone in here has done this before, and what your language of choice is for that web service.
My background is entirely LAMP-stack, all Perl and PHP, but I'm thinking of branching out, maybe going with Python or Ruby just to learn something new. I'm not sure I'd want to go to Java, or C#/.NET because that's an entirely different platform, and in the case of C#/.NET, have to actually (gasp) purchase development tools.
I have no idea, buddy. I did a little background reading and this is all I can contribute:
Python is ease through consistency and Ruby is ease through conceptual elegance. Further, I read that Ruby has "syntax" issues. So...I suppose I vote Python as well! You'd probably make less mistakes?
